Badmintoners at the Olympics

Not really "devolution media" in the sense that it's the producers fault...just thought I'd mention it.

8 Olympic female badmintoners, - one the Gold medal favorites from China - were tossed out of the Olympics yesterday for deliberately trying to lose their matches.

Apparently the way the Badminton games are set up, if you lose one match you're not knocked out of gold medal contention - you just get an easier game the next time.

So all these badmintoners - 2 teams from Korea, 1 from China and 1 from Indonesia, deliberately tried to lose - not even pretending to play well. They'd hit the shuttle cock into the net at serve, or hit it wide, and they continued to do this even though they were loudly booed throughout their matches and even though they were warned several times by the referee.

It's interesting...what did they think they would accomplish by being so blatant about trying to lose? Did they really think they would not be thrown out of the Olympics for what they did? When they had warning after warning after warning?